“You go out in search of affirmation that you’re good, that people like you. She thinks the experience has made her a better singer. She dances in sparkly fishnet leggings, her voice filling the stadium as she sings such Spanish-language favourites as Chantaje and her English-language crossover hits, including Whenever, Wherever and She Wolf.
There is a palpable joy to Shakira’s concert performances, filmed mostly at her Los Angeles show in August last year. Watch a trailer for Shakira’s El Dorado tour film A publicist is somewhere across the room in the shadows. Shakira sits cross-legged and tiny in a giant armchair, eating gummy sweets. On her El Dorado tour, which she’d been forced to postpone, every night on stage was “a gift”.Ī film of the tour is about to be released, which is why we’re meeting in a hotel suite in Barcelona, by the window in the late afternoon, a darkening sky outside. “Either I needed surgery or divine intervention.” When her voice eventually returned, without an operation, “it felt like I was having some kind of religious experience”.
Instead she tried hypnosis and meditation, even going to Lourdes to get holy water. “Gerard saw the worst of me.” When her voice returned, without an operation, 'it felt like I was having some kind of religious experience'ĭoctors told her she needed surgery, but she wasn’t convinced it would work. I was a bitter person to be around.” She laughs. “He jokes that you would think you would want your wife to shut up – but when I had to remain quiet, he felt like one of those ex-convicts who are given their freedom and don’t know what to do with it.” How did she stay positive? “I was not positive. She says she never fought with her partner, the Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué, so much as when she couldn’t speak. Her children – then two and four – couldn’t read, so writing didn’t help.
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